I’m relatively new to Linux and did the switch from Windows to Linux on my main PC. I’ve settled on Fedora KDE Spin and had running version 36. I did the 37 update recently, all is good. I’m still experementing and learning stuff, so far no big problems. I’m currently dealing with Samba (shares). I have a second Windows PC and I want to create a Samba share on Linux so the Windows PC can access it.
I followed the instructions from the docs, specifically the part “Sharing a directory inside /home”, which is what I want to do.
I managed to get this working. Then my question was if there is a more easy way, similar to Windows, to create a share via gui, for example in Dolphin, right click - > Samba share or smth. Because it’s a bit tedious to go through these steps for each new share.
I asked on reddit about it and a helpful user pointed me to the kdenetwork-filesharing plugin for Dolphin.
But I’m having problems setting it up. After installing the plugin I can see a new “Share” tab in the properties of a folder. But all I get there is the following:
I don’t use that to share files with samba but have you set up a samba user.You can do that in the terminal with smbpasswd -a yourusername
You can also open system setting go to network settings windows shares and set up a user and password there.As I said I haven’t used that plugin but samba works well for me but I have the shares set up in smb.conf
Yes, I have set up a Samba user and created a share in my home directory via the smb.conf file, like descriped in the linked documentation of Fedora. That does work, I can access the share on my Windows PC with the created Samba user.
My problem is the usage of the plugin. And yes, I tried to insert the name and password of my Samba user under system settings - > network - windows shares, but that didn’t help, though, I don’t even know if that even has something to do with the plugin.
The only other thing I can think of is make sure your a member of the sambashare group.I really don’t know what permissions that plugin needs.Maybe someone who has gotten it working will post how they did it.
Yeah, I will probably ask on KDE reddit about it. Someone has to know how it is supposed to work.
Because you are mentioning a “sambashare” group:
Initially, I didn’t have a sambashare group, as there is no instruction in the documentation to create such group for a share in the home directory (only one user). But a reddit user also mentioned to add my user to the “sambashare” group. So, because of the absence of such group, I created a group called “sambashare” and added my user, which is also a Samba user, to this group. Additionally I modified the permission to 770 for the shared folder.
